Tran Lam, an employee of an oil and gas company, said that his hometown is a poor village in the central region.

春林是一家油气公司的员工，他说他的家乡是中部一个贫困的村庄。

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The oil-rich Gulf states grouped in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) should consider letting their "poor stepbrother" join the organization.

海湾合作委员会（GCC）的那些石油资源丰富的海湾国家应该考虑让他们“贫穷的继兄弟”加入该组织。

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He magnanimously excuses the Economist's poor record of predicting the price of oil: our suggestion in 1999 that oil would remain dirt cheap was conventional wisdom at the time, he says soothingly.

他很大度地原谅了《经济学家》在石油价格预测方面的失误，安慰说：我们在1999年认为世界石油价格将会一直非常便宜，但这是当时人们普遍的看法。

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He says it is poor countries that will be hit hardest by a downturn in oil supplies.

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From being poor in oil, China is now the fifth largest oil producer in the world, behind Saudi Arabia, Russia, the United States and Iran, but ahead of Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Kuwait and Nigeria.

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For there are very large ones out there, in those poor and oil producing nations.

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However, the picture does not look so bright now following two poor harvests, further depletion in oil production and a drop-off in Iraqi funds, as refugees have by now largely used up their savings.

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